CD-R burning device

• US 20030041192A1
• Filed: 08/24/2001
• Published: 02/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Domex Technology Corp. (Standard Foods Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Domex Technology Corp. (Standard Foods Corporation)
• Inventors: Teng, Ming-Se, Chong, Chee Kong
• Application Number:
  US09/935,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20030041192A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/62
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0613 in relation to throughput
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/28 Re-recording, i.e. transcribing information from one optical record carrier on to one or more similar or dissimilar record carriers

Abstract

A CD-R burning deice includes a plurality of burning units connected with each other via an external interface. The burning unit further includes an operating unit, a source drive, a chipset, a hard disk and a plurality of burners. The source drive serves to read data stored in a parent disk of the source drive, and the chipset serves to execute the burning function according to the mode of the operating unit, read the data of the parent disk of the source drive through an internal interface, transmit commands or data through the external interface to the chipset of other burning units, or receive commands or data transmitted by the external interface. Meanwhile, the hard disk serves to store the data of the chipset through the internal interface, and burn the data to the disk inserted into the burner itself after being activated by the chipset.

Claims

1. A CD-R (Compact Disc Recordable) burning device with a plurality of burning units that are connected with each other by an external interface, each of the unit comprising:

an operating unit;

a source drive for reading data stored in a parent disk of the source drive;

a chipset for executing a burning process according to an input mode of the operating unit, and reading the data stored in the parent disk of the source drive through an internal interface, transmitting commands or data through the external interface to the chipsets in the other burning units, or receiving commands or data transmitted through the external interface;

a hard disk for storing the data of the chipset through the internal interface;

a plurality of burners respectively connected through the internal interface to the chipset and driven by the chipset to read and burn the data in the hard disk to the disks in the burners.

2. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the external interface is optionally an IEEE 1394 interface, a USB interface, an Ethernet interface, a fiber channel interface, or a wireless transmission medium.

3. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating unit has a press key for burning function.

4. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the source drive is optionally a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.

5. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the chipset comprises a microprocessor CPU, a Read Only Memory (ROM) and a Random Access Memory (RAM).

6. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the RAM is optionally a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM).

7. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the internal interface is optionally an IDE interface, a SCSI interface, an IEEE 1394 interface, a USB interface, an Ethernet interface, an optical channel interface or a wireless transmission medium.

8. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said burner is optionally a CD-R, a CD-RW, a DVD-R, or a DVD-RW.

9. A Compact Disc Redordable CD-R burning device comprising:

an operating unit;

a source drive for reading the data of a parent disk of the source drive;

a chipset for executing a burning process according to an input mode of said operating unit, reading the data stored in the parent disk of the source drive through an internal interface, transmitting commands or data through the external interface to the chipsets within other burning units, or receiving commands or data transmitted through the external interface;

a hard disk for storing the data of said chipset through the internal interface;

a plurality of burners respectively connected through the internal interface to the chipset and driven by the chipset to read and burn the data in the hard disk to the disks of the burners.

10. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the operating unit comprises a press key for burning function.

11. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said chipset comprises a microprocessor CPU, a Read Only Memory (ROM) and a Random Access Memory (RAM).

12. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 11, wherein said RAM is optionally a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM).

13. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said internal interface is optionally an IDE interface, a SCSI interface, an IEEE 1394 interface, a USB interface, an Ethernet interface, an optical channel interface or a wireless transmission medium.

14. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said external interface is optionally an IEEE 1394 interface, a USB interface, an Ethernet interface, an optical channel interface or a wireless transmission medium.

15. The CD-R burning device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said burner is optionally a CD-R, a CD-RW, a DVD-R, or a DVD-RW.